Anybody else out there starting to get flashbacks to 2008 north Cal lightning fires.
I know it’s not that bad yet, but I am starting to wonder.
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Had that very same conversation this morning. Although, as I recall most of those T-Cells went up the mountains, not the valley and coast. Just my recollection
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Sure. Lots going on under difficult weather situations and by tomorrow winds are forecast for typical NW and NNW summer patterns with humidity dropping to typical numbers as well. Whatever doesn’t get picked up will definitely pose challenges.
Once everything smokes-in and a stable atmosphere returns, a lot of the fires will smoulder and back downhill with beneficial ecological effects. We’ll get runs here and there when the inversions lift or frontal passages take the lid off of the pot.
I’m having deja-vu to the 1999 Butte Lightning Complex. On that one, everything started in the wee hours of the morning, and was capping out in the middle of the first afternoon.
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Yup. This reminds me very much of that 1999 event. But that was just the one area, not as widespread as this one.
Klamath and Shasta T are different from 2008. No one has invited them yet. Maybe today, but honestly hope those two Forests don’t get an invitation.
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SHF Southfork getting a few starts around Stuarts Gap and Yolla Bollas
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here’s another just south of that
http://www.alertwildfire.org/northbay/index.html?camera=Axis-MohrhardtRidge1&v=81e002f
Those two forests do not need a special invitation. I’m just back from two weeks on the SRF. Don’t need to go back this soon.
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I spent last couple hours watching 3 fires burning in Upper Butte Creek from Hwy 32, right below the Platt Mtn cameras. They didn’t get any air support or engines, but are kind of sheltered, and never really took off. It was pretty calm, a bit humid, and fairly cool above 3,500’. Check out the timelapse showing the very moderate fire behavior, here:
http://www.alertwildfire.org/shastamodoc/index.html?camera=Axis-PlatteMtn2&v=81e004f
